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1. Vaishnavi Adkar and Rutuja Bhosale finished runners-up in the women’s doubles at the WTA 250 Chennai Open, losing 2-6, 0-6 to Switzerland’s Simona Waltert and Naima Karamoko in the final at the SDAT Stadium, Nungambakkam. The pair had become the first all-Indian team to reach a WTA Tour-level doubles final; they received USD 7,650 as runners-up.
2. Anuj Shrivatri, 22, became India’s 100th chess Grandmaster and the first from Madhya Pradesh by winning the 7th ASEAN+ Individual Open Championship in Ozamiz City, the Philippines, with 7 points from 9 rounds on 8 November. Viswanathan Anand became India’s first GM in 1988.
3. East Bengal FC became the first Indian club to reach the quarter-finals of the AFC Women’s Champions League, advancing as one of the two best third-placed teams despite a 0-2 defeat to DPR Korea’s 4.25 SC in their last Group B match at the Kishore Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata, on 7 November. The knockout draw will be held in Kuala Lumpur on 3 December; the quarter-finals are scheduled for 27–28 March 2027.
4. Bangladesh batter Towhid Hridoy scored an unbeaten 242 against the West Indies in the second Test at Sylhet, the highest individual score by a Bangladeshi in Tests, surpassing Mushfiqur Rahim’s 219 not out. He made the runs off 304 balls with 22 fours and 11 sixes, helping Bangladesh recover from 184 for 7.
5. World number one An Se-young of South Korea beat Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi 21-12, 15-21, 21-16 in the Korea Open badminton final at Yeosu on 8 November, claiming her 11th title of the year.
6. Gurdial Singh Bhangu, who coached the Indian women’s hockey team to gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, died in Surrey, Canada, aged 86. He became the first hockey coach to receive the Dronacharya Award, in 2000; India beat England 3-2 in that CWG final.
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